The law was not intended by its author to apply to online auctions. It was intended for people running 'live' auctions. The author of the law is working to get it corrected.
Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by incompetence.
WoW would cost me what, 70 bucks for the game, and another 20 or so to play for a month? That's me going 90 bucks out of pocket for a game, hell a whole genre of gaming, that I don't know if I'd like or completely hate.
Try about $50-60 for the game, with the first month free, so a total of $50 or so, not $90 or so.
The specs for te 7K500 (500GB) include 817 Mb/s max. media data rate, 8.5 ms average seek time, 7,200 RPM, 4.17 ms average latency, ATA-100/Serial ATA 3.0 Gb/s.
While it's nice to something as fast as possible, is there a point to have a 3.0Gb/s interface to a product that can only handle 817Mb/s?
Well, if it has an onboard cache RAM, data on that cache will be sent out at the 3.0 rate. So it does help a little.
As far as I could tell, the problem was that Blizzard rolled their own BT client with no upload capping, so you ended up with a saturated upstream, leading to poor downstream performance, and leaving you unable to browse the web, etc. while you waited.
Once people managed to extract the.torrent Blizzard was using for a given update from the updater.exe file, you could get much better performance from the same tracker using a standard BT client.
Blizzard's beta downloader was BT only, but the retail downloader app has a nice, clear checkbox to disable the P2P component and just download straight from Blizzard. Its slower, of course since while you're not uploading to peers, you're also not downloading from them, just the main blizzard node.
I used to do word processing on a 8085 2.4MHz chip with 8k RAM upgradable all the way to 32k on a 8 line x 40 character display. My aunt used to write novels on one by saving each chapter out to a cassette drive. These things were so modern, they came with a built-in 300 baud modem.
The last project he personally wrote code for I'm told was a version of MS Basic on ROM for the Tandy TRS-80 Model 100, a lovely little machine I use for taking notes in class. 2.4Mhz 8085 CPU, 32Kb CMOS Ram that served as RAM and storage, full size KB, RS232 port, and ran for 20-25 hours of use on a set of 4 AA batteries.
Except it doesn't work that simply. You request a key (file) from node A. Node A takes that request and sends it to B, C and D. B sends it to E, F, and G. G happens to have a copy of the key in its cache, so it sends the response to B, who forwards it to A who forwards it to you. You have no idea which node actually sent you the data, the only node you talked to directly, node A, was blindly routing packets. Node A doesn't even know if you were the original searcher, or if you're just going to pass the result along like it just did.
Computergeeks.com has 2.5" to 3.5" IDE adapters for $3.65 +sh as well, which is what you want to use to plug your old drive into a standard desktop system.
They've already thought of this problem from what I've read on the site. There won't be a problem with people voting down information, because the only thing you can do is vote yes by downloading a file. Afterwards, if the file isn't what it says it is, you can take back your yes vote.
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RTFA folks:
The law was not intended by its author to apply to online auctions. It was intended for people running 'live' auctions. The author of the law is working to get it corrected.
Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by incompetence.
Actually, this is NOT news. WOW Community Reps have been saying this since the begining of the year, at least.
They bought X amount of hardware to support Y players, and made roughly Y boxes to ship to stores.
They're not doing another production run of boxes until they have the back end hardware in place to support all the new customers.
Try about $50-60 for the game, with the first month free, so a total of $50 or so, not $90 or so.
Well, if it has an onboard cache RAM, data on that cache will be sent out at the 3.0 rate. So it does help a little.
As far as I could tell, the problem was that Blizzard rolled their own BT client with no upload capping, so you ended up with a saturated upstream, leading to poor downstream performance, and leaving you unable to browse the web, etc. while you waited.
.torrent Blizzard was using for a given update from the updater .exe file, you could get much better performance from the same tracker using a standard BT client.
Once people managed to extract the
Blizzard's beta downloader was BT only, but the retail downloader app has a nice, clear checkbox to disable the P2P component and just download straight from Blizzard. Its slower, of course since while you're not uploading to peers, you're also not downloading from them, just the main blizzard node.
Poor LiveJournal, facing a slashdotting two days in a row.
Not saying you're wrong, but she referenced California labor laws, which likely are stricter than Federal.
8086? What luxury!!
I used to do word processing on a 8085 2.4MHz chip with 8k RAM upgradable all the way to 32k on a 8 line x 40 character display. My aunt used to write novels on one by saving each chapter out to a cassette drive. These things were so modern, they came with a built-in 300 baud modem.
http://www.trs-80.com/trs80-10.htm
The last project he personally wrote code for I'm told was a version of MS Basic on ROM for the Tandy TRS-80 Model 100, a lovely little machine I use for taking notes in class. 2.4Mhz 8085 CPU, 32Kb CMOS Ram that served as RAM and storage, full size KB, RS232 port, and ran for 20-25 hours of use on a set of 4 AA batteries.
Have you found this documented anywhere in MS's stuff? I've been looking around for the answer before I enable it in my SUS
The network install of SP2 is ~250 megs, the file up on MSDN is an .iso image of the full CD that includes SP2, .Net runtimes, and other such updates.
Except it doesn't work that simply. You request a key (file) from node A. Node A takes that request and sends it to B, C and D. B sends it to E, F, and G. G happens to have a copy of the key in its cache, so it sends the response to B, who forwards it to A who forwards it to you. You have no idea which node actually sent you the data, the only node you talked to directly, node A, was blindly routing packets. Node A doesn't even know if you were the original searcher, or if you're just going to pass the result along like it just did.
My vote goes for the Wizard of Speed and Time
Here's one I didn't see an answer to: How would a sended-pays system handle mailing lists such as majordomo or yahoo/egroups setups? Any ideas?
Computergeeks.com has 2.5" to 3.5" IDE adapters for $3.65 +sh as well, which is what you want to use to plug your old drive into a standard desktop system.
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They've already thought of this problem from what I've read on the site. There won't be a problem with people voting down information, because the only thing you can do is vote yes by downloading a file. Afterwards, if the file isn't what it says it is, you can take back your yes vote.